Affiliate since: 05/10/2012, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Wayne's 236 other Ask SC answers

When a person steps out of the “regular” routine and wants to build a business of their own there will be some family members and close friends who will do everything they can to either get you to quit or to support and encourage you.

If your family members support and encourage your idea then that is great! Keep them informed of all the positive things happing in your SFI and TripleClicks business. Try to slowly work your family members in helping you build your business by handing out fliers or business cards, easy things.

Now if your family members do not support your new adventure with SFI and TripleClicks you will need to be firm in the fact that you know, having your own home business is the way to supplement your income and maybe even earn enough to get totally out of debt.

One thing you do not want to do is to cause a lot of friction within your family, by all means you should come to an agreement between the family members and yourself that will keep the peace.

When I first started SFI over 3 years ago my family members were against the idea and I convinced them to let me try it for 2 months without investing any money. Everyone was happy about that.

What I did during the next 2 months was to purchase a couple of the great products offered by in TripleClicks and shared them with my family members just as a good product I was not investing in the business.

What happened is that one of my family members loved the product and wanted to buy product for themselves. Well that turned on the business building lights in the eyes of my family now they are involved in SFI one way or another.

If you get your family members involved in some of the great products that are listed in TripleClicks you should have no problem in keeping the peace and also gain vital support from your family members.

One other thing to remember is that your success with your new home business does not depend on the support of those in your family or friends. You have the sole responsibility on how successful you are going to be.

When everyone sees just how determined and persistent you are towards your new home business they will be drawn into the passion and join your quest for success.

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When a person steps out of the “regular” routine and wants to build a business of their own there will be some family members and close friends who will do everything they can to either get you to quit or to support and encourage you.

If your family members support and encourage your idea then that is great! Keep them informed of all the positive things happing in your SFI and TripleClicks business. Try to slowly work your family members in helping you build your business
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Affiliate since: 09/17/2015, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Cristina's 13 other Ask SC answers

First of all the most important decision was made by yourself: to join SFI. Yes, if your family would agree and embrace your SFI business would be great for your state of mind and the fact that they support you brings contentment. You all would discuss the success plan and what would be the next step to make for each of you.....wow!
When the family is skeptical regarding this kind of business because they want you to have a normal job or they think all these internet business are scams, or the online payments are fake.
In this second case you shouldn't be affected, you should continue your activity with no problem for few months until you start to have a nice incomes and then you can show them your payments and the new position you achieved in the SFI as a BTL, STL or GTL, explain them the advantages . They might change their minds and follow you or they might continue to be skeptical and in this case you should also continue your activity not bothered because , after all , you are the one who makes the decisions regarding what to do and how to earn money .
If you really really want your family in the business, don't be pushy, time solves everything and they will decide. Just talk with them about it and show them, from time to time, the activity, prizes earned and payments.
I hope I managed to help you a little bit and I wish you only success!
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First of all the most important decision was made by yourself: to join SFI. Yes, if your family would agree and embrace your SFI business would be great for your state of mind and the fact that they support you brings contentment. You all would discuss the success plan and what would be the next step to make for each of you.....wow!
When the family is skeptical regarding this kind of business because they want you to have a normal job or they think all these internet business are scams,
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Affiliate since: 07/02/2024, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Jennie's 147 other Ask SC answers

Your family embracing SFI is important because they can help you build and grow your business. They can contribute with their time and money. They can help by promoting your business to others. You can have their support and even encouragement. They can motivate you.

If they do not embrace it; however, it is not the end of SFI. There is plenty of support from friends, the forum and your upline. There is encouragement through the forum posts.

The question is are they against it?

If they just do not embrace it, you must be prepared to go it alone. You must seek motivation and inspiration from outside to survive any difficult times.

Remember you will be working as a single person, you must be financially strong without them.

If they are against it your investment of money and time may create family issues. You must be prepared to deal with the issues.

Hope this helps!
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Your family embracing SFI is important because they can help you build and grow your business. They can contribute with their time and money. They can help by promoting your business to others. You can have their support and even encouragement. They can motivate you.

If they do not embrace it; however, it is not the end of SFI. There is plenty of support from friends, the forum and your upline. There is encouragement through the forum posts.

The question is are they
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Affiliate since: 11/14/2014, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read VIVEK KUMAR A's 129 other Ask SC answers

It is really of great importance that your family supports you in your business. You are investing time and money here and both holds important place in the domestic sphere. A peaceful mind can yield better results in your business growth, hence concurrence of the family members is prime most specially your spouse and grown up children. If they can take it up, even better (following the company restrictions)

In the beginning as you are setting up your business and looking for options to strengthen it day by day. It may require more time to be devoted to study the contents, understand them and then subsequently applying them to your business growth. This may not yield great in monetary terms but that is how you set your business. You invest first and then the returns start coming gradually. No business would provide you expected returns in few days or months. During this phase it is the support that your family provides, keep you going.

Their contribution is equally important in the work you do and your success. For this reason, you should explain to them as well what you are doing and how it works? You never know, this may yield you some great prospect to grow your business. Their references can be more reliable and your success at your business would establish straight away reliability and trust. Your guidance can take it further to next level.

In the absence of their support you may succeed in one part but bound to fail in other part of life. If you succeed in business your relations would take a toll and your peace of mind compromised. And if you go for maintaining the relationship you would lose on your business growth.

As this business can be willed, it makes all the more important that you explain to them and take their concurrence so that they can take it further in your absence.

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It is really of great importance that your family supports you in your business. You are investing time and money here and both holds important place in the domestic sphere. A peaceful mind can yield better results in your business growth, hence concurrence of the family members is prime most specially your spouse and grown up children. If they can take it up, even better (following the company restrictions)

In the beginning as you are setting up your business and looking for options to
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

SFI is a Multi-Level-Marketing (MLM) business. Relatively speaking, this industry is still in its infancy. However, it is growing fast as one of the most effective sales organization models. Some of the most successful world business leaders recognize its potential and are embracing it wholeheartedly.

However, there is still a majority who does not understand it. This explains the reservations MLM is still facing. Thus, we will find, in our family members, some who will support us, others who will be neutral, while the rest will express hostility to various degrees.

Our warm market is one of our primary prospective targets. It is made up of our family members and other close relatives, our friends, our business relationships and wider network of people with whom we interact on a regular basis. The penetration we can muster into this market will help us launch our business and start seeing results rather sooner than usual.

In that regard, it makes it much easier to build an SFI business when we have several of our family members who embrace it and even join in as affiliates or TripleClicks customers and ECAs.

There is a very good probability for that happening, if we have had excellent relationship with our family members, especially if, in the past, we had supported them in their own endeavors. Most of them will likely return the favors and support us in our efforts to build our business. Or, at least they would refrain from showing some form of hostility to what we are striving for.

These are the family members and close relatives with whom we have built some form of strategic alliances in terms of both personal and business interests. We want to strengthen those alliances with every possible means.

Nonetheless, it is very unlikely that everyone in our family will understand what MLM is truly about, and be positive about it, to the extent that they would embrace it. Some will express reservations and others may even accuse us of lack of realism, or laziness. They may see us as unwilling to go out and find a regular job like everybody else.

Here is where the strategic alliances we built come in. Our allies will defend us when we are criticized in our absence, while our positive attitude and unwavering commitment will be the most adequate answers to that criticism.

Even if none of our family members embraces SFI or supports us, we should still remain firm in our commitment and focus on building our businesses.

One effective way to respond to negativity expressed by our family members is to always remain friendly with them, regardless of what they may continue to say or do. In addition, we can, indirectly expose them to SFI and TripleClicks. The best way to achieve this is to give them gifts from TripleClicks Direct products such as T-shirts, and other top selling items, especially the nutritional supplements, the vitamins, and environment friendly cleaning supplies.

And, when we have finally succeeded in building our SFI business, we should remain always forgiving to those who were hostile. With financial ease, we will have more means to show them that we are not holding anything against them. If we continue to give them gifts and help them in what they are doing or in times when they are in need, they will turn around and take a closer look at SFI with an open mind.
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SFI is a Multi-Level-Marketing (MLM) business. Relatively speaking, this industry is still in its infancy. However, it is growing fast as one of the most effective sales organization models. Some of the most successful world business leaders recognize its potential and are embracing it wholeheartedly.

However, there is still a majority who does not understand it. This explains the reservations MLM is still facing. Thus, we will find, in our family members, some who will support us, others
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Affiliate since: 11/13/2001, Power Rank: 74 | Read Jeannette's 241 other Ask SC answers

It is very important that your family supports you in your business. They can give you encouragement when things are not going well. They can help you reach other prospects and customers. They can help lighten your load when there is a lot of work to accomplish in a short time.

If, however, your family does not support your business venture, it's really too bad, but don't allow this to discourage you or think of quitting as an option. Love them and remember that they're not against you. They are rejecting a concept. Continue to spend time with them and let them see how this business is growing as you earn more and more. You never know when a family member might become interested.

Remember, never force anyone, family member or anyone else, to become an affiliate or a member. That never works, and you can sure turn off those people and many more when they talk to others about how bad they think the business is and how you tried to coerce them. If they don't want to talk with you about your opportunity, leave them alone and continue to grow without them. Keep a positive attitude and keep moving.
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It is very important that your family supports you in your business. They can give you encouragement when things are not going well. They can help you reach other prospects and customers. They can help lighten your load when there is a lot of work to accomplish in a short time.

If, however, your family does not support your business venture, it's really too bad, but don't allow this to discourage you or think of quitting as an option. Love them and remember that they're not against
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Affiliate since: 07/05/2024, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Nafisa's 286 other Ask SC answers

The support of your family in SFI is as essential as it is important. They collectively or individually bring in a perspective that is very useful to your business if it was conducted offline or online.

We must appreciate that with SFI where the income projections are not clear cut (your family will not understand your income calculator when they are used to seeing income figures through a profit and loss account. You will need to spend some time explaining this to them. If you are convinced that this business will bring in the returns you want, it will be easy to get your family to believe in what you are doing.

Very often, spouses or other family members may not consent to you carrying on this business but they are supportive of your ambitions and this is half your battle won! But if they do not support you, the next best thing is to prove them wrong.

You can only do this by increasing your earning potential and this is faster through TripleClicks so focus on generating sales through your online store. SFI does not work independently of TripleClicks- they work hand in hand so it is important that you shift your focus to areas of the business that your family members will understand faster.

Who does not understand sales!

When you make a good profit through TripleClicks, there is no reason why your family members would stop you from earning money! The concept of SFI will catch up with them as you grow and can show your commissions to them. A positive attitude can surmount any hurdle.
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The support of your family in SFI is as essential as it is important. They collectively or individually bring in a perspective that is very useful to your business if it was conducted offline or online.

We must appreciate that with SFI where the income projections are not clear cut (your family will not understand your income calculator when they are used to seeing income figures through a profit and loss account. You will need to spend some time explaining this to them. If you are
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

In theory it's not important at all. Thanks to SFI there is plenty of marketing methods and aids available and with only a little bit of research you can set up your own marketing campaign that can reach millions of people at once. Even with a low success rate you would still sign up plenty of PSA's and PRM's to grow your business.

The reality, however, is a different story. With family and close friends you have an ally that can prove very useful. You can set up your business in such a way that everyone benefits very quickly. For instance: you sign up your brother, best friend, mother, uncle, neighbour (be aware that you are only allowed one SFI affiliate per household!) and promise them that you will reassign every PSA you recruit among them as long as they do their daily tasks. You have your 5 active affiliates, which is crucial, and they can grow their business without any necessary investments. And because their business grows, yours grows too!

In my eyes it is imperative that you sign up your family members and friends because it is an easy road to success. And who is better to share success with than your family and close friends? Start with finding one family member or friend who is interested and use them as an example to convince others. Five should be enough to run a very successful business, more is better. Remember, you are NOT allowed to log into their account and do the work for them. You could lose your account.

I wish you all the best!
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In theory it's not important at all. Thanks to SFI there is plenty of marketing methods and aids available and with only a little bit of research you can set up your own marketing campaign that can reach millions of people at once. Even with a low success rate you would still sign up plenty of PSA's and PRM's to grow your business.

The reality, however, is a different story. With family and close friends you have an ally that can prove very useful. You can set up your business in such
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Affiliate since: 03/25/2015, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Maria's 19 other Ask SC answers

I treat my SFI business as a family business, and have started showing my daughter age 12 the techniques, in fact I got one active downline through my daughter - her teacher.

Having said that, I believe it is absolutely important for your family member hubby or wife and adult children to embrace your SFI business, because as you know, it is of great benefit if you all work together as a team, to nurture and grow your SFI business.

You also have to know that they will benefit greatly from all your works because you can WILL the account to your children and generations to come.

If they do not support you, continue please and believe if you are focused you will definitely achieve success and they will be willing to know your secret.

Hope this help.
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I treat my SFI business as a family business, and have started showing my daughter age 12 the techniques, in fact I got one active downline through my daughter - her teacher.

Having said that, I believe it is absolutely important for your family member hubby or wife and adult children to embrace your SFI business, because as you know, it is of great benefit if you all work together as a team, to nurture and grow your SFI business.

You also have to know that they will benefit
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Affiliate since: 01/29/2015, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Louisa's 12 other Ask SC answers

Hi Dear,

I think I can pretty much wrap my head around this question because I would want to look at it from two different perspectives.

It's important that your family embrace your SFI business if you're the family type. Otherwise it's not much necessary.

As a family person however, I've weighed the effectiveness of both perspectives and given more credit to "Allowing family embrace your SFI business". This is because of the following reasons.
1) They could support you in areas where you're lacking financially if you need to make one or two investments in SFI just as my mother had done for me when I recently became an affiliate.
2) They could put in a word or two for you in your absence when someone asks and is interested in SFI. That might just get you another new PSA.
3) They themselves with time, may become interested in SFI and it could soon become a family business, hence the ease of sponsoring and mentoring each other for the growth of your individual businesses. As it is always said, 'A family that eats together, stays together' In the same vein, 'A family that does business together, stays together and also succeeds together'.

However, like you said. What if they don't embrace your SFI business.
Well, it is understandable. And like I said earlier it wouldn't matter much. A lot of people who don't have their families involved in SFI are succeeding in it tremendously. There are other ways to go about your business and motivating yourself to success.

In short, The involvement of family does help raise a business in many ways but also the non-involvement of family does not tear down the progress of a business in any way.

Success solely depends on YOU!

I hope I helped.
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Hi Dear,

I think I can pretty much wrap my head around this question because I would want to look at it from two different perspectives.

It's important that your family embrace your SFI business if you're the family type. Otherwise it's not much necessary.

As a family person however, I've weighed the effectiveness of both perspectives and given more credit to "Allowing family embrace your SFI business". This is because of the following reasons.
1) They
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